War poetry is one of the typical poetry types in The Book of Songs, which mainly describes the war life of Zhou people and expresses the emotional experience arising from it. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
The artistic achievements of The Book of Songs;
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which has left the most far-reaching influence on the development of China's poems. Its artistic achievements have always been praised by the world, and its artistic style is always worth cherishing and learning from. The folk songs in The Book of Songs existed in China two or three thousand years ago.
Most of the authors were ordinary laborers who lived in the vast northern Central Plains and were mainly engaged in agriculture and mulberry production. Their living conditions are quite difficult, their lives are simple, and their personalities are vigorous and strong. Their lives are simple and their wishes are simple. The folk songs in The Book of Songs are the reflection of their simple life and desire, and the natural expression of their thoughts and feelings in life.
They are singing their true feelings in life. Such as "Cutting Tan" and "Shuoshu" not only reflect their working life, but also resent the so-called "gentlemen" who plundered the fruits of their labor and yearn to live in a "paradise" without exploitation and oppression.